The Republican journal., 1887-10-06
Generalities.

The business portion of Sanford, Fla. Was
burned Sept. 22l. Loss. 100000.
General James B. Ricketts,. the commander
of Ricketts's Battery in the war, is dead.
Fifty thousand inhabitants of MeSSina have
fled from that city on account of cholera.
General William Preston of kcntucky.a Il for
mer Minister to Spain and Confederate leader,
is dead.
\ set of trpcts at lIarrisburgh Pa. have
been named respectively Frances. Grover and
Cleveland.
Another great tria! of Nih;listsi> about to he
gin iii st. Petersburg. The prisoners include
fifteen army officers.
The Interstate Commission has ;iert,l, / against
the Central Vermont OH the complaint of tie
Vermont State Grange.
An average human pulse Al infancy is 140 per
minute; at years, lO0 from rs to 10, 50, al
manhood, IS; Oil age. 80.
The Noyes will contest at Burlington. Vi.
failed so far As the County Court is concerned.
but an appeal will be taken.
Shocks of earthquake have bteE felt 1T .:;i-
maica and Santiago which caused damage to
property and injury to persons.
\ case involving the ownership Of slaves,
which had been OF the docket since 1888. has
just been decided in the Georgia courts.
Next year will be the 30Oth anniversary of the
destruction of the Spanish armada, and it is
proposed in England to celebrate the event.
Eight hundred families have been made des-
titute by the recent tloods of the Nile. Property
has been damaged to the extent of 2,500,00o.
The Canadian Minister OF Murine will urge
that the Canadian Government take the initial
step toward laying cable across the Pacific
Ocean.
The highest denomination of nited States
legal tender notes is 100000. No bills of the
value OF 100000 have ever been issued in this
country.
\ new interstate cXtradition is proposed.
The draft of the bill will be sent to the Cover
nor of each State and afterward forwarded to
Congress.
Next spring the port of Cron>tadt will be
closed to merchant vessels. and all ships must
load and unload in the new maritime harbor
of St. Petersburgh.
According to a consular report from Germany
sewing girls can obtain but bare subsistence
for their labor, and thousands are being crowd-
ed into paths of vice.
Mr.. Z. $. Wheeler, of f. S. Wheeler Il Co.,
the New Haven firm that recently failed with
large liabilities, was arrested ona criminal suit,
A postal treaty has been negotiated between
United States and Jamaica, by which packages
of merchandise of less then eleven pounds may
be sent between both countries.
An explosion of rockets on the British war
ship Bellerophon in Quebec Sept. 10th, in njured
40 sailors instead of three As reported. Thirteen
of them are terribly burned and lacerated.
Wa>hburn, Moen Il Co. of Worcester have
xsIa &y ly...l 4, .
100000 against Herman Schnable Il Co. for
unpaid royalties on manufactured barb wire.
Martin V. b. IIersom, wel-known Boston
detective. is under arrest charged with rohbing
the representative of New York ewelry firm
of $500 worth of diamonds at the fremont
House.
The census for France for 1856, which has
just been issued, shows an excess of births over
deaths of $500, against $1,000 in 1882. The
divorces granted in 1856 numbered 2S49. against
4211 in 1855.
There is newspaper in Colorado whose
proprietor, editor and assistant are the only in-
habitants of the place in which it is published.
1t is supported by the legal advertisements of
mining claims.
Four little girls, playing on the island of Or
leans, near Quebec, picked up an OLD shell left
on the field by an artillery camp and applied IL
lighted match to it. Three were killed instantly
and the fourth was fatally injured.
The democratic faction fight in Boston has
broken out with fresh vigor. the leading Irish
democratic paper demanding that Postmaster
Corse, who is charged with retaining repub!i-
cans in office under him shall resign
The preliminary agreements with reference
to the projected tunnel though Simplon Noun
tain have been signed. The tunnel will open
in, fnli Hhn SIyis tal ia n
Governments each contribute $4,000, 900 francs.
At Lynn. Mass, September 22d, Frank
f. Dingley of Minneapolis. Mimi, lowered
all the worlds bicycle records from 81 to 100
miles inclusive. in race against Knapp OF
Denver. A strong wind was blowing at the
start.
Col. w. z. Rend, of Chicago, the big coal
operator, Is authority for the statement that be-
fore snow falls, anthracite coal will he nine or
ten dollars per ton, owing to advances in wages
to miners. scarcity of coal and the interstate
commerce law.
Trafalgar, the largest iron clad ever construc-
ted, was successfully launched recently at Ports
mouth, Eng. She is of $40 tons, with l2.000
| horse power. She will carry twelve guns. four
of 81 tons aud eight of 40. Her side armor is
twenty inches thick.
decrease, the brewing of beer is becoming more
extensive. The receipts form beer during the
past fiscal year were ,922 ,1S7, against Sl9,-
676. 731 the year previous, thus showing an in-
| crease of $2,245 ,456.
The st. Paul, Minn., Pioneer-Press, in long
review of the practical working of the high
license law in tina state since it went into effect
July 1st, says that it has reduced the number Of
| saloons, increased the public revenues and
| lessened the amount of crime.
| All the crops on the bottom lands between
| Mammoth and Benson, in Arizona, have been
entirely destroyed by the recent floods. Fields
| of growing cane and corn are now but bed of
sand, and it will take several years before the
| ranchers can recover their losses.
A man named Lew Vanderpoole has been ar
rested In New York charged with obtaining
money on false pretences. lie has recently
sold work he claimed to have been written
by Nine. George Sand, and is said to be the
greatest literary pirate Of the times.
1t is proposed to establish in this country a
congress Of naval reserve, consisting of officers
and members Of the merchant marine, yachts
men and watermcn generally, and Of vessels to
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